The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map helps gardeners determine which plants are most likely to thrive at a location. Source: USDA USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map, Northern California. Source: USDA USDA ...

Blue Zones are communities where people not only lived longer but also enjoyed a high quality of life in their old age' — ...

The next time you see English Ivy for sale, it might also have a warning sign letting you know it’s an invasive plant.

2007-2011 Fire Hazard Severity Zones Once the hazard zone maps are released by the state, local jurisdictions can adopt them or amend them by increasing the hazard level for particular areas.

TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- For the first time in 14 years, California's fire hazard severity zones maps have been updated by the state fire marshal. Based on fire history and conditions of ...

Many of us are getting the itch to start planting, given the longer, warmer days of sunshine. Every year, many of us plant and then worry a few nights about our work being killed by ...

Cal Fire has released new fire hazard severity zone maps for public review and comment, including maps for Tulare County, Woodlake, and Porterville. The new maps will impact future building ...

The Fire Hazard Severity Zone maps, published Monday for Southern California, show fire hazard creeping farther into some of L.A.'s most populous areas. “Very high” fire hazard severity now ...

and the state maps enable viewers to compare old severity zone rating areas with new ones. Jay Sumerlin, the city of Redding's deputy fire chief, said the city of Redding's maps cover hazard ...

Fire Hazard Severity Zone maps evaluate “hazard,” not “risk,” Cal Fire says. Here’s the agency’s definition of both: “‘Hazard‘ is based on the physical conditions that create a ...

Also see: Southern California fire danger zones increase 76% in new maps All told, the size of these orange and red patches on the new maps is 3,626 square miles — an area nearly twice the size ...